Here are photos of the announcement of former executive editor Jill Abramson in the NYT newsroom. Her name has already been replaced on the paper’s masthead.
For those of you who think millennials are getting too PC or persnickety with their commencement speaker protests, open your eyes. This has been going on for decades. Great piece.
If embittered hostility to President Obama is tied to race, why did the GOP go the full crazy on Bill Clinton? My take on the presidency and race.
As I noted below, Ken Aulleta at The New Yorker puts a heavy emphasis on Jill Abramson finding out a male predecessor and a male subordinate both had higher compensation then she did. She purportedly approached senior management about this and this, in part, led to her dismissal.
The Times version of the story puts considerably more focus on an issue Aulleta treats in passing: Abramson’s desire to Janine Gibson from The Guardian to the paper to oversee digital with at least nominally the same title. Aulleta said it was understood that Gibson would report to Baquet. The Times has this point rather differently …
After Ann Coulter’s first try at hijacking the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag failed in spectacular and hilarious fashion, she’s apparently decided to try it again.
Read Amanda Marcotte on why Jill Abramson’s firing “speaks to the deep, immoveable, and totally realistic fear many women have that there’s nothing they can do to overcome sexism in the workplace.”
If this is true, it could be one of the most damaging things for Gov. Chris Christie to emerge from BridgeGate yet.
First, don’t miss this essay by Amanda Marcotte on Abramson’s rough defenestration. We’re always excited to have her in our pages.
Second, it may get lost in all the high-octane drama but in Ken Auletta’s second dispatch on Abramson’s dismissal, Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy, appears to concede explicitly a fairly clear case of wrongful termination.
Police Chief of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: “I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse (sic),” Copeland wrote in an email to the resident, as quoted by WMUR. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
Wolfeboro has 6,300 residents, twenty of whom are African-American.